I laugh when I hear pundits talking about Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, as if he’s going to last that long. Let me make it very clear: Trump will resign sometime in 2019. I guarantee it.
Trump, and at least one of his children, is in some very, very serious trouble. When you factor in the scale of his High Crimes and Misdemeanors, as well as his position in government, he is perhaps the most crooked, corrupt politician in American history.
Some context is important here. Let’s recap the two biggest presidential scandals of the last five decades. Richard Nixon left office disgraced by Watergate. He wasn’t impeached but would’ve been (and likely indicted as well) had he not cut a deal to resign on August 9, 1974 in his second year of his second term. He threw his presidency in the toilet over a cheap, 3rd-rate break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters and then obstructed justice in a bone-headed cover-up.
Bill Clinton was impeached in December 1998 by the Republican-controlled House, but the GOP Senate couldn’t muster enough of the 2/3’s vote they needed to remove him from office. Clinton’s impeachment was all about perjury. Lying about sex. Period. Clinton’s biggest crime? He was, literally, an unapologetic horn-dog who simply wanted to get off.
Which brings us to Trump who, as we learned conclusively in court filings last week by Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, is a felon. A soon-to-be unindicted co-conspirator who directed his former lawyer-fixer-legbreaker Michael Cohen to commit campaign finance violations twice in paying off porn-star Stormy Daniels and former Playmate Karen McDougal just weeks before the 2016 election.
To be sure, Trump wanted to get off too (the list of his sordid sexual conquests is quite long), but more importantly he wanted to influence the outcome of the presidential election. And that’s the difference between his transgressions and those of his randy predecessors.
What we have yet to learn conclusively from special counsel Robert Mueller is whether or not Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election, and the extent of that conspiracy. But we will. And soon enough. If anyone out there still doesn’t believe this, I have a…
